My favorite Marxist statement is: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." In this case, it was spoken by Groucho Marx, the 20th century actor and comedian. His humorous observation also relates to how local leadership often works. Too many elected leaders enter the civic arena believing that their job is to look for trouble and then propose some creative and mind-bending solution that reveals them as a person of immense wisdom. Leadership today, however, requires the ability to facilitate collective, vibrant solutions for our communities - solutions that the public owns and has a stake in seeing through to a positive conclusion.
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